The National Shame.

[weaklingrecords]

I cannot even begin to put into words my feelings about people who have looted stores for guns, who then fire those guns at helicopters attempting to deliver much needed food and medical supplies to hospitals in New Orleans

Comments

[mervlurker]

I know... the first thing that came to mind when I first heard about the shooting was "oh crap... some southern militia chapter working hard to 'keep big government off our backs.'" I still don't know much about what's going on with that, but I'm hoping it's just a few individuals who've been driven batshit crazy by something in the floodwater.

Article on the national guard personnel working on disaster relief:

http://www.nationalreview.com/robbins/robbins200509020719.asp

[weaklingrecords]

I think the situation is a little more complicated than I make it out to be, but I also think the situation is more complicated than Mr. Robbins makes it out to be. The 10% of America's Army in Iraq is a little bit disingenuous and a good example that you can make numbers say anything that you want them to say. The total number of troops in the Army includes all the wounded, all of the new recruits, and all of the desk jockies around the globe who are still considered "active duty." The other issue is that National Guards(wo)men who have just returned from Iraq are not sitting around thinking to themselves, "Wow, what should I do now?" They're returning to their jobs, their families, their lives. They have served their time in Iraq, many on much longer tours than they were ever expected to (thank you, Stop Loss Order). So their preparedness is not what it could or should be, were we not involved in the way that we are in Iraq

[bassmike]

I think I said last night, after watching some of the coverage of New Orleans, that I wished Guiliani was President.

[weaklingrecords]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/index.html

[misunderstruck]

I too threw some money the Red Cross' way.